Professional Development

Each learning plan includes a set of questions that help you reflect on what you've learned and begin to think of ways to apply it. Access the training and the questions from a single PDF to track progress and your notes. Each plan requires 2 to 3 hours of work and when finished, you can submit for a certificate of completion. Topics include:

• Improving Your Meetings
• Leveraging Team Performance
• Understanding Teams in Higher Ed
• Improving the Effectiveness of Your Decision Making
• Leading More Inclusively
• Managing Conflict as a Leader
• Understanding Strengths-Based Leadership
• Supervision and Feedback
• Identifying Talent
• Creative Problem Solving in Higher Ed
• Building Resilience
• Developing Better Time Management
• Working with Introverts
• Managing Difficult Colleagues

https://www.academicimpressions.com/courses/micro-plan-sfwd/

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Assess the effectiveness of your regular meetings and identify the specific factors that either help or hinder your meetings. This tool looks at four critical elements that either make or break a meeting:

1. Discipline and Focus
2. Participation and Engagement
3. Group Dynamics
4. Practices and Protocols

Use this tool with your team or group that has regular face-to-face meetings on an ongoing basis (e.g. weekly, bi-weekly). Although the MDT is designed to evaluate face-to-face meetings, it has also been successfully used with video conferences/online meetings.

https://www.academicimpressions.com/product/meeting-diagnostic-tool-mdt/

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Is your team performing to its fullest potential? The High Performing Teams Survey is based on a research-informed team effectiveness model that Academic Impressions has developed specifically for higher education. This model values collaborative decision making, transparency, accountability and mutual support, and team learning.

The booklet you receive includes:

• A model and framework for understanding the six components of team effectiveness
• A review of the research on effective teams
• A tested and proven survey instrument, with worksheets and tools for scoring the findings
• Instructions for conducting an in-depth item analysis and benchmarking your team's improvement over time

https://www.academicimpressions.com/product/the-high-performing-teams-survey/

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• Identify and focus on your purpose and top priorities in order to move towards greater effectiveness
• Define goals that drive you toward achieving your purpose without overwhelming you
• Create and manage a schedule that allows you to accomplish your most important work first
• Protect your schedule and stay accountable to your top priorities when distractions and derailments inevitably arise 

• Nine lessons covered in just over 1 hour of video content
• 16 hands-on activities allowing you to practice and hone your time management skills
• Bite-sized lessons with course content that is broken down into chunks of no more than 20 minutes
• Access the course from wherever you are
• Progress on your own time and at your own pace 

Access the course here.

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